Great post. I'm lucky because I joined steemit only 3 weeks ago but I get some support by a friend who joined early and has dophin class SP.
Without his support it would be so frustrating to see hardly any support for my posts and maybe I would have quit already.
I hope the 'middle class' grows and keeps on support new member so the platform can keep on growing and steem keep's rolling down the mountain as a snowball :-)